Died in jail or a lockup
Allie Thompson
Allie Thompson was being held in the Culpeper County, Virginia, jail in November 1918. Newspaper accounts say that on a Sunday night, two men arrived at the jail with a man bound in ropes, and the jailers, believing their story, opened the door. About fifteen masked men then overpowered the jailers, took Thompson from his cell and killed him, and his body was found hanging from a tree about three miles from town at daybreak. No source identifies any member of the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody